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'Modern Family': Lily Drops The F-Bomb

Posted 03.19.2012

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It's something all parents can remember -- or will experience if not there yet. That awkward moment when their child first discovers profanity. Unfort...

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Mike Huckabee Drops The F-Bomb

Posted 12.05.2011

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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee appears to drop an "F-bomb" in a recent video for part of the ONE campaign's new push to combat famine in the Horn ...

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F-Bombs Are Dropping By The Cluster In PG-13 Movies

AP | GLENN WHIPP | Posted 10.18.2011

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LOS ANGELES — Those extra expletives you're hearing at the multiplex these days aren't just echoes. PG-13 movies, officially allowed one nonsexu...

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Robert Sayegh, Delta Passenger, Kicked Off Plane For Using F-Word

AOL Travel News | Posted 08.14.2011

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Robert Sayegh was flying back from his cousin's wedding on Sunday on a Delta flight, when, while complaining about a delay, he used the F-word to a fe...

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The F Word: Crushing Workers in Wisconsin Has National Effects

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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So that's what they mean by from welfare to work. First you force the poorest Americans into the workforce, then you go after their bargaining power. Wisconsin is only the eye of this storm.

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The F Word: Setting the Story Straight on Snow "Slowdown"

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's worth noting: the story of a union-staged work slowdown after New York's first major snowstorm of the year has been debunked pretty thoroughly by now.

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The F Word: Protests in Cairo Forgotten by Obama

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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Why did the president not have anything to say about Egypt -- where thousands of people, inspired by Tunisia, were taking to the streets to protest their own repressive government -- another one the US has backed for years?

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The F Word: Leaving the People Out of the Debate

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's not just the unemployed we don't tend to see on U.S. TV. Take public workers. They're in the news every day, but it's not actually them. It's people talking about them.

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The F Word: Public Workers Getting Snowed

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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Non-New Yorkers gloat beware -- the Big Apple's storm offers just a taste of the problems that are likely to be coming your way.

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The F Word: Ask, Tell, Don't Kill

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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Last Thursday, 131 demonstrators -- many of them veterans -- were arrested outside of the White House, protesting war.

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The F Word: Attacks On Government Workers in Tax Deal

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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A little-noticed provision in the "tax cut compromise" we discussed today with Bernie Sanders might well drain the states' coffers.

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The F Word: When Interpol Cares about Sexual Assault

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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Julian Assange turned himself in Tuesday -- he's been arrested and is being held without bail in London ahead of a hearing on extradition to Sweden. T...

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The F Word: WikiLeaks' Economic Warfare

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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If Assange's cyber invasion is to Bankster Street what the civil rights marchers were to segregation, what are Wall Street's water cannons? I can hardly wait to find out.

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The F Word: Why Tax When You Can Freeze?

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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Laura Flanders

Although that $2 billion Obama estimates he'll save in freezing federal employees' wages sounds like a lot of money, it isn't. Compare it to the $700 billion that we handed over to Wall Street.

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The F Word: Profits, Pensions, and the Return of GM

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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Today marked the return of automaker GM to public trading on the stock market. All hail the American automakers, returning to profitability in a littl...

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The F Word: Time to Call It Torture

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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The New York Times is finally calling it torture -- when someone else has admitted to it.

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The F Word: Time to Stop Making Nice to Military

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama's go-slow approach to ending "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" discrimination in the military has left repeal on life support in a lame-duck ses...

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The F Word: Lessons from Elizabeth Warren

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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Which lesson will Obama take from sweeping midterm losses? The mantra from the media is move right, conciliate, bridge build. But that's the rotten ro...

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The F Word: Who Profits From Silly Campaign Season?

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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We need another word for silly season. It's way beyond silly how some are competing in this midterm race. In Illinois in particular, it's not been pre...

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The F Word: Losing the War's Beginning

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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The ninth year of the U.S. war in Afghanistan began with an apology.

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The F Word: It's the Economy, Not the Bloggers

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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Americans are angry with the Obama administration, and the Obama administration is angry with -- bloggers? The left-leaning media? What's wrong with this picture?

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The F Word: Questioning the Cycle of War

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Obama administration is frustrated with the Pakistani government's inability to quell the Taliban. Who are the US to be frustrated? The answer to...

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The F Word: Is the Drug War a Class War?

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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The war on drugs. We keep calling it that, it seems, because we like wars on abstract concepts. Like the war on terror, the war on drugs racks up one ...

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The F Word: Larry Summers: Goodbye To All That

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Internet was all a-Twitter yesterday when news broke that Larry Summers, director of the National Economic Council, will step down by the end of t...

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The F Word: Echoing at the Extremes

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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This weekend, at a panel on the U.S./Mexico border in Marfa, Texas, GRITv friend, reporter Mark Danner discussed the "thinning out" and hard...

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